(June 18, 2023 at 12:34 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(June 18, 2023 at 9:44 am)Belacqua Wrote: I agree that when Nietzsche posits chaos as the real state of the world, as an assertion about physics, then he can't be right.
Why not? What assurance is there that we are not just is a pocket of proximate order within a cosmic chaos. That is not a question for you, but rather for those atheists willing to express what they are for and not just what they are against. I could have started a thread like "Atheism is Nihilisitic" but instead I choose to ask the question and give members of the forum the opportunity to present me with their opinions about how a strictly atheistic philosophy justifies its claims. Can it be foundationalist?
If I'm reading you right, I personally don't think there is any such assurance, as I said to Bel. Ie we exist because whatever 'subset' - or in your terms, 'pocket of proximate order' - of reality can sustain us, but it doesn't tell us anything about what may or may not lie beyond that.
